Howmany do they have ( I thought they recieved 2 many years ago and they must be already quite old so are both still alive or did one past away in the meantime ? ).
Howmany do they have ( I thought they recieved 2 many years ago and they must be already quite old so are both still alive or did one past away in the meantime ? ).
I tried to get a picture of all 3 together, but it's not 100% clear. I'll attach it anyway - there is one in each doorway and one on the branches just below the right-hand doorway.
I too had heard there was only one so this came as a huge surprise when a second one jumped out of the house, I nearly had a heart attack when I saw the third in the next [connecting] aviary!
Does anybody know if the info a lot of us have is wrong in that they only had one, or have they received more by some miracle? They were also very active, don't know if that's the sign of a young parrot but they certainly didn't look like they would drop dead at any moment and they gave of the impression of being relatively young birds.
that is interesting. I can't get the thumbnail to open any bigger to see the birds, but what I got from googling (i.e. not much!) was that there were 1.3 in 2010 at Stuttgart and 0.3 in 2011. I would guess at the three you saw being the mother and two female offspring.
I was going to say' can you go and help yourself'? but the article does explain that it wouldn't be that easy to catch them or get up to the nests to obtain chicks for the pet trade. Its a very interesting situation- particularly as they all seem to have stemmed from a single escapee + one deliberate release from the Zoo. So very inbred but seemingly with no infertility problems.
